Founder's Growth Partner - Education Tech

Academic Career & Executive Search; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Best Merchant Partners (BMP) in Dallas is seeking a Senior Advisor to the Founder to work directly with Randy Best. This is a hands-on role, not a traditional advisory position, with daily collaboration to move initiatives forward across a global portfolio.

The successful candidate will be intellectually agile, adapt quickly, and translate ideas into action while balancing strategic discussions with execution. The role requires extensive travel and is based on-site in Dallas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Demonstrated strategic and operating experience, preferably within higher education, higher education technology, education services, or a related organization.
• Strong understanding of the higher education sector, including its organizational and governance structures.
• Willingness to travel extensively, primarily internationally, with travel averaging approximately two weeks per month.
• Based in the Dallas area or willing to relocate.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted partner to the Founder, helping establish priorities, evaluate opportunities and challenges, and ensure effective follow-through on decisions and initiatives.
• Work closely with portfolio company leaders to assess performance, identify operational needs and opportunities, and ensure effective execution and follow-through on key initiatives.
• Provide hands-on input and problem-solving across the portfolio, stepping into complex situations and helping move businesses and initiatives forward with urgency.
• Help shape and execute business plans for existing portfolio companies, balancing long-term strategy with the immediate operating needs of businesses at different stages of growth and development.
• Help evaluate opportunities for growth, partnerships, acquisitions and new business models, including potential expansion within the United States and re-entry into North America.
• Participate in due diligence related to potential acquisitions and investments and support capital and transaction-related activities as appropriate.
• Help BMP and its portfolio companies anticipate and respond to significant changes in higher education, technology and the competitive landscape, including the rapidly evolving role of artificial intelligence.
• Help foster effective relationships with executives, university partners, investors and other stakeholders, regularly representing the Founder and BMP as appropriate.
• Serve as a flexible, hands-on resource across the businesses, taking on emerging priorities and responsibilities as organizational needs and opportunities evolve.

Skills

Strategic experience

Operational experience

Travel flexibility

Dallas-based or relocation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Best Merchant Partners (BMP) in Dallas is seeking a Senior Advisor to the Founder to work directly with Randy Best. This is a hands-on role, not a traditional advisory position, with daily collaboration to move initiatives forward across a global portfolio.

The successful candidate will be intellectually agile, adapt quickly, and translate ideas into action while balancing strategic discussions with execution. The role requires extensive travel and is based on-site in Dallas.